Recurrences after Oral and Genital Herpes Simplex Virus Infection

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 316, Issue 23, 1987, Pages 1444-1449

  Lafferty, William E ^a   Coombs, Robert W ^a   Benedetti, Jacqueline ^a   Critchlow, Cathy ^a   Corey, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENITAL HERPES; HERPES LABIALIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; MOUTH; OROPHARYNX; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES GENITALIS; HERPES LABIALIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; STOMATITIS, HERPETIC; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 0023226177     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198706043162304     Document Type: Article

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